Liquid-cooling device



April '3, 1928.

1,664,872 R. WEST LIQUID COOLING DEVICE Filed Oct. 5. 1926 avwmboz flaw)? 7/5952 Ufa 1m 6. LULZZA Patented Apr. 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT WEST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HUGH MCMURRAY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

LIQUID-COOLING DEVICE.

Application filed October 5, 1926. Serial No. 139,743.

This invention relates to cooling devices with particular reference to an article of this type used in reducing the temperature of hot liquids, such for instance as milk too hot for a child to drink.

It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a small and easily manipulated device capable of drawing heat out of liquids when the same is passed therethrough.

Another object is in the provision of av liquid cooling device that is readily dismantled thereby rendering the same positively sanitary.

These and other objects, which will become apparent as the description progresses, are accomplished by the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the device.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional View taken on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

In the drawing the numeral 10 generally designates a substantially elliptically shaped container made preferably of glass, having in its lower wall a downturned nipple provided with an opening 11 and at its upper edge a beading 12.

Fitting snugly over the beading 12 is a metal cap 13 having a central down-reaching funnel 1 1 provided with a cylindrical portion 15 containing a plurality of openings 16.

Secured in the lower enlarged portion of the cylinder 15 is a rod 17 extending down into the container 10.

The lQCl 17 carries a multiplicity of spaced metal plates 18 tilted at an angle to the rod; one curved end of each plate closely fits the container 10. the other opposite curved end being made to present a space 19 intermediate its edge and the wall of the container.

Also fixed on the rods, intermediate the plates 18, are similar but oppositely inclined plates 20 held, in relation to the container 10, in a manner like unto the plates 18, thus producing spaces 21.

In operation, the container 10 is held over a cup or glass to receive the cooled liquid and the hot fluid is poured into the container through the funnel 14.

In passing, the liquid first flows down the top plate 18 through the space 21 onto the nextoppositely tilted plate 20, through the space 19, etc., until it reaches the bottom of the container, from which it will pass by way of the opening 11.

"he liquid now received will be much cooler than when it first entered the funnel 14; therefore placing the same at a temperature suitable for drinking purposes.

To clean the device it is merely necessary to remove the rod 17 and plates 18 and 20 from the container, by lifting the cap 13 from the beading 12, or by passing a stream of boiling water through the assembled de vice, whereby all parts are cleared of accumulations.

As changes ofconstruction could be made within the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the foregoing description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A liquid device comprising a container, an open nipple at the bottom of said container, a fiat cap having a bead fitting over the top of said container, a funnel formed on said cap, said funnel having a perforated cylindrical portion, a rodcarried by said cylindrical portion, and a multiplicity of oppositely inclined plates fixed on said rod over which the liquid to be cooled is passed progressively, said plates and rod being removable from said container together with said cap.

2. A liquid cooler comprising an open topped container having a bead at its edge and a dispensing nipple in its bottom, a cover to engage said bead, a funnel formed on said cover, a tubular extension on said funnel, the upper portion of said extension being perforate, a support rod fixed in the lower portion of said extension to reach nearly to the bottom of said container, and a series of divergentlyinclined plates fixed on said red, the lower edges of said plates presenting open spaces'through which liquid may flow to the next succeeding plate.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 1st day of October A; D. 1926.

ROBERT WEST. 

